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The Sutter's Mill meteorite is a carbonaceous chondrite which entered the Earth's atmosphere and broke up at about 07:51 Pacific Time on April 22, 2012, with fragments landing in the United States. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The name comes from Sutter's Mill , a California Gold Rush site, near which some pieces were recovered.
The first samples of this meteorite fall were recovered close to Sutter's Mill, so it was named the Sutter's Mill meteorite. Several dozen fragments were eventually identified, with a total weight of about a kilogram. The meteorite is classified as a carbonaceous chondrite and contains some of the oldest known material in the Solar System. [17]
One of the fragments landed at Sutter's Mill, the very site where gold was first discovered in 1848 that led to the California Gold Rush. Jenniskens found one of three fragments of this CM chondrite on April 24, before rains hit the area. [22] The rapid recovery was made possible because Doppler weather radar detected the falling meteorites.
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A search for meteorites in the Dhofar Desert in the Arabian Peninsula (Dhofar Governorate, Oman, November 2012) A meteorite find is a meteorite that was found by people, but whose fall was not observed. [1] They may have been on Earth's surface for as many as thousands of years and therefore could have been subject to varying amounts of weathering.